While I’m not sure that John and Charles Wesley are good examples of systematic theology, their work is among my favorite among Protestant theologians. Maybe because it isn’t soundly systematic. Their theological views grew out of the Anglican traditions and added a more practical interior emphasis that sought balance between so many different influences with an emphasis on the interior life.

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While I’m not sure that John and Charles Wesley are good examples of systematic theology, their work is among my favorite among Protestant theologians. Maybe because it isn’t soundly systematic. Their theological views grew out of the Anglican traditions and added a more practical interior emphasis that sought balance between so many different influences with an emphasis on the interior life.

I'd say they had less of a system and more of a method.

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While I’m not sure that John and Charles Wesley are good examples of systematic theology, their work is among my favorite among Protestant theologians. Maybe because it isn’t soundly systematic. Their theological views grew out of the Anglican traditions and added a more practical interior emphasis that sought balance between so many different influences with an emphasis on the interior life.

While I’m not sure that John and Charles Wesley are good examples of systematic theology, their work is among my favorite among Protestant theologians. Maybe because it isn’t soundly systematic. Their theological views grew out of the Anglican traditions and added a more practical interior emphasis that sought balance between so many different influences with an emphasis on the interior life.

I'd say they had less of a system and more of a method.

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While I’m not sure that John and Charles Wesley are good examples of systematic theology, their work is among my favorite among Protestant theologians. Maybe because it isn’t soundly systematic. Their theological views grew out of the Anglican traditions and added a more practical interior emphasis that sought balance between so many different influences with an emphasis on the interior life.

Yeah, the Wesley brothers are gold, IMO, but you are right that much of their theology is grounded in early Anglican traditions, as well as some Catholic ones. John Wesley's love of the Desert Fathers is evident in his work.

Also, I think I said this a few pages back, but Thomas Oden's Classic Christianity is a good systematic theology. Oden hails from the Wesleyan tradition.

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